‘Who am I?’: Tonya Edinboro-Williams uses art to answer this all-important question

Tonya with her daughter and biggest supporter Indiana Williams

‘Do art, nobody ever fails it’ were the words that began Tonya Edinboro-Williams’s creative journey. Although Tonya, a graduate of E R Burrowes School of Art and final year University of Guyana student in Fine Arts, has been a professional artist for nine years, her exposure to art was really instigated by her Charlestown Secondary School form teacher.

While a fourth former, Tonya, apart from her compulsory subjects, had the option to do art or Spanish and went with the latter. However, there were some boys in her class who when asked by the Art teacher which subject they were doing would respond Spanish but when they encountered the Spanish teacher and the same question was posed their response was Art.